We performed a comparison between Adaptive Insights and Anaplan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Performance Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday."
"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."
"Automated reporting."
"It's very stable."
"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."
"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."
"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."
"Technical support has been good."
"Anaplan's strongest feature is that its GUI is very modern and user-friendly."
"Anaplan provides 130 GB of cloud storage for organizations to use as part of their license."
"Where we're seeing the opportunity in the market is at the Fortune 100 companies that have far more complex modeling type scenarios where you need to be able to have a lot of people collaborating together, and you need a lot of information all at everyone's fingertips. This is where you see the big advantage of a solution like Anaplan."
"The solution works very well for budgeting."
"You don't need to have a programming language to use Anaplan."
"The best thing is that it's very intuitive and user-friendly. You don't need coding skills to manipulate the platform."
"It's simple to use with a lot of functions."
"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."
"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."
"The upload feature exists, but isn't terribly useful."
"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."
"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."
"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."
"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."
"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."
"Anaplan is a relatively expensive piece of software."
"Space and integration are a problem."
"There are workspace issues, like the limitation on model sizes."
"When there is a lot of data, it sometimes takes long to load."
"The solution could improve by better dashboards and while entering the form loss and project implementation the ability to use graphical shapes more effectively."
"The solution can improve by providing an easier form of integration to different platforms, such as receiving data from different Salesforce. There is a process to do it through the use of some APIs but it could be made much easier. This would be a large help to us."
"The cloud engine slows down when working with a large dataset. It still lacks a powerful engine."
"Automation needs to be built into this solution."
Adaptive Insights is ranked 9th in Business Performance Management with 18 reviews while Anaplan is ranked 1st in Business Performance Management with 24 reviews. Adaptive Insights is rated 8.4, while Anaplan is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Adaptive Insights writes "Facilitates leveraging the query reporting engine and modeling engine into Excel spreadsheets but there is room for improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Anaplan writes "Great for large-scale modelling, easy to learn, and very stable". Adaptive Insights is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle HFM, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and Planful, whereas Anaplan is most compared with SAP ERP, Oracle Hyperion, SAP S/4HANA, IBM Planning Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud. See our Adaptive Insights vs. Anaplan report.
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